Anders Ljungberg (born 12 July 1947) is a Swedish former

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who played as a

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. He was nicknamed "Puskas" after the Hungarian footballer of the same name.

Club career

Ljungberg is most known for being part of the

Malmö FF Malmö Fotbollförening (), commonly known simply as Malmö FF or MFF, is a Swedish professional football club based in Malmö, Scania. They compete in the Allsvenskan, the top division of Swedish football, and play home matches at the Eleda S ...

team that reached the 1979 European Cup Final. He won five national championships and six cup titles during his time with Malmö.

Coach career

Ljungberg was coach of

Landskrona BoIS Landskrona Boll och Idrottsällskap (, locally referred to as BoIS) is a Swedish professional football club located in Landskrona, Scania, which currently plays in Superettan, the second league tier of football in Sweden. The club was formed ...

from 1995 to 1996.

Personal life

Today, Ljungberg is an

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teacher in

Trelleborg Trelleborg () is a town in Skåne County, Sweden, with 43,359 inhabitants as of 31 December 2015. It is the southernmost town in Sweden located some west from the Smygehuk, southernmost point of Sweden and the Scandinavian Peninsula. It is one ...

, Sweden.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ljungberg, Anders 1947 births Living people Swedish men's footballers Sweden men's international footballers Malmö FF players Åtvidabergs FF players IF Limhamn Bunkeflo (men) players Landskrona BoIS players Örebro SK players Allsvenskan players Swedish football managers Landskrona BoIS managers Men's association football midfielders 20th-century Swedish sportsmen